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Climate Camp at 1.30pm

13-08-2007 12:52

Phone report from the climate camp site at 1.30pm:

There are now about 300 people on site. The atmosphere seems to be relaxed, although vehicles are still not allowed in, and people are only allowed to enter the site from the Sipson end. Police are strolling around the site accompanied by campers taking notes onf clipboards. People are being searched on both ends. Lots of media vans are parked near the main entrance, including many tv crews and three satellite vans. Generator x is stuck outside the camp.

The building of infrastructure has slowed down due to the police blockade. Wheelie bins are being used to bring stuff in, the media is very interested in that. People are laying a pipe for water but currently, they have to carry it in. However, without vehicles, it is impossible to get marquees onto the site, which are needed to hold workshops and meetings.

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Bicycology South West England Tour 2007: A Quick Report

13-08-2007 11:35

Hands-on fun!
A short summary of Bicycology's recent bike tour from Aylesbury to Exeter, fixing bikes, promoting cycling and making the links to the big issues like climate change, capitalism, car culture and corporate irresponsibility.

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Climate Camp Sunday afternoon

13-08-2007 06:33

Video Fit team outside footpath centre entrance.
The video and pics shows FIT team and Camp.

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Residents, artists unite to celebrate villages threatened by Heathrow

12-08-2007 22:39

Making a church
"An Airport is a non-place. This is Our Place."

This weekend local residents of Harmondsworth and Sipson, villages both threatened by the proposed third runway at Heathrow, joined artists and climate change activists in a celebration of their homes and local history.
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"Do not make political actions for us": Catalan Four

12-08-2007 21:48

The Catalan four arrested and imprisoned in Oaxaca have asked that no one makes protest for them, as they were not doing anything political.

First in Spanish, then the English translation.

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Attack on IWW Solidarity March in Providence, RI-Support Needed!

12-08-2007 21:00

Police break fellow worker, Alex Svoboda's leg
On Saturday, August at 11, 12pm EST, the Providence I.W.W. organized a march on Jackie's Galaxy, which is a restaurant chain that is being supplied by HWH in New York City, a supplier who is notorious for its slave labor conditions of up to 110 hours per week without basic labor rights (minimum wage and overtime).
Roughly 30-40 wobblies and supporters (including Providence and Boston SDSers) were marching towards Jackie's Galaxy in North Providence when the police began following them en mass. They told the marches to move to the sidewalk, while this was initially ignored, the marchers listened to the police and began slowly moving to the sidewalk.
The police then surrounded the marchers in their squad cars and began getting out. With the police in full force, they began attacking the marchers, one fellow worker, Alex Svoboda, was pinned down by the police during her arrest and suffered a broken and dislocated leg and ruptured blood vessel in the knee. These injuries will require at least two surgeries and extensive rehab and even then may not completely repair the damage. Jason, another wob, was arrested in during the police' attack. Ashley, a supporter from Boston, was also severely maced during the attack, suffered chemical burns and required medical treatment.

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FIT Watch at Climate Camp

12-08-2007 18:42

FIT Watch will have an active presence at Climate Camp from Tuesday morning both at Staines Station and the camp itself.

We are also hoping to form a rota of people to stand outside camp trying to prevent FIT from taking photos, and adding to our own database of police photos.

Please help us and get involved – let’s show we will not accept their repressive policing.

We will have a workshop on Tuesday at 4:30pm at the camp to set up a rota. This workshop will also deal with the legalities of dealing with FIT Teams and will discuss how we can resist them in the future.

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Public health issue as police blockade climate camp site

12-08-2007 17:59

For the last couple of hours police have been obstructing access to the climate camp site near Heathrow airport and have refused to allow even water or toilets to be taken onto the legally occupied site.

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Independent climate camp week info line

12-08-2007 16:17

A temporary and experimental phone service has been launched especially for the week of the Camp For Climate Action. It provides easy access to news taken from the indymedia newswire and info from the climate camp web site for people who are visually impaired or unable to read a computer display for other reasons.

0207 043 3783

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Climate Camp police "wrong to use terrorism legislation"

12-08-2007 15:25

Police endear themselves to locals
We know they're not terrorists, you know they're not terrorists and the police know they're not terrorists.

That was the message being given out to journalists today as reports came in of people suspected of travelling to Climate Camp being intercepted and searched under terrorism legislation outside local railway stations.

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Climate Camp Arrests - people needed on site

12-08-2007 08:28

Reports are coming in of a first arrest at 2.45 am this morning.

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Climate Camp Land Occupied

12-08-2007 00:40

Tripods over the camp (1)
Climate Camp activists met at a half dozen locations around London this afternoon, moving during the evening in vans to various sites near Heathrow.

Just after eleven the groups converged on a large field opposite the airport. Within minute tripods were erected and occupied with a large banner reading "Climate Camp, No Airport Expansion" slung between the two.

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Protest against asylum treatment

11-08-2007 21:32

Hundreds of campaigners took to the streets to protest against the deportation of asylum seekers.

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Undercover Notes From Oaxaca: Cops, lies and videotape

11-08-2007 16:03

It’s been a tough two weeks. From election coverage, police monitoring to murder for timber.

But now, as I should be on a bus out of this hellhole masquerading as a happy tourist resort, but a zone of paranoia for an undercover journalist, I am compelled to get all this down. For one thing, purely to document the situation should I not make it out of here.

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IWW support postal strike 10/8/07

11-08-2007 13:41

solidarity is strenth
Sheffield IWW were out in support of stiking postal workers yesterday Friday 10th of August.

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Ayr Sheriff Acquits Seven Prestwick Protesters

11-08-2007 10:39

The Eight People on Trial in Ayr 8-10 August 2007
War crime was an issue, claims expert witness

Following the acquittal of seven of the eight Prestwick protesters at Ayr Sheriff Court due to inadequacies in the Crown case a prominent expert witness testified that collusion in war crime was relevant to the context of the trial.

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Human Rights League Condemns Oaxaca Detentions

11-08-2007 00:50

The Mexican League for the Defence of Human Rights (LiMEDDH), today spoke out against the arrest of four Spaniards on Oaxaca Election Day and called for an end to the criminalisation of Oaxaca’s social rebellion.

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Trafford Family Court Demo

10-08-2007 21:18

RFFJ and FASSIT DEMO AT TRAFFORD COUNTY COURT MANCHESTER

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Manu Chao: Playing with Fire – video at Sziget Festival in Budapest

10-08-2007 17:45

After his concert at the biggest European music festival, Sziget in Budapest, indy.media.hu interviewed Manu Chao about globalization, nature, the hope stolen from the new generation, about 1968 and about tomorrow.

Download the video:
 http://indy.media.hu/video/manuchao.wmv

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